Creating the Twentieth Century
Creating the Twentieth Century The period between 1867 and 1914 remains the greatest watershed in human history since the emergence of settled agricultural societies: the time when an expansive…
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Creating the Twentieth Century
The period between 1867 and 1914 remains the greatest watershed in human history since the emergence of settled agricultural societies: the time when an expansive civilization based on synergy of fuels, science, and technical innovation was born. Its peak decade - the astonishing 1880s - brought electricity - generating plants, electric motors, steam turbines, the gramophone, cars, aluminum production, air-filled rubber tires, and prestressed concrete. At its beginnings in the 1870s were dynamite, the telephone, photographic film, and the first light bulbs.
This book is a systematic interdisciplinary account of the history of this outpouring of European and American intellect and of its truly epochal consequences. And its post-1900 period saw the first airplanes, tractors, radio signals and plastics, neon lights and assembly line production. It takes a close look at four fundamental
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